Business Leaders Forum
The Business Leaders Forum is devoted to invited presentations on and discussion of the selected theme or themes of the B2B event, by leading professionals in the most relevant technology and business fields.
Dr. Orestis Terzidis
VP SAP Research
Dr. Orestis Terzidis, who holds a doctorate in theoretical physics, started to work for SAP Labs Sophia-Antipolis in 1998 as an application developer and joined SAP AG in 2000 as assistant to Henning Kagermann, CEO SAP AG. Since January 2004 he is Director of the CEC Karlsruhe. In developing future research initiatives, Orestis is currently focusing on Information Technologies for future energy networks (Common abbreviations are IT-FEN and E-Energy). He is leading the Working Group on IT-FEN within BDI Initiativ, an initiative of the German Industry Federation. Orestis is member of the board of directors of the Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz and of advisory boards of the Forschungszentrum Informatik and of Frauenhofer institute IITB. He is teaching technology management and related topics at the IU Bruchsal and is acting as reviewer for the European Commission.
Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione
CEO CEDEO
Leonardo Chiariglione has been at the forefront of a number of initiatives that have helped shape media technology and business as we know them today. Particularly important is his chairmanship of the ISO/IEC Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standards committee and of the Digital Media Project, a global initiative to promote continuing development, deployment and use of Digital Media. Leonardo is the CEO of CEDEO.net that advises major multinational companies in the area of digital media, develops and tests specific technologies and solutions, and launches start ups based on its technologies. Leonardo has a 25-year experience in European projects having participated, as a leader, partner or indirectly, in some 45 such projects.
Ms. Cristina Martinez
Head of the Future Internet Enterprise Systems cluster
EU Commission
Cristina Martinez has a background in Science Philosophy (Cum laude), in Communication (Cum Laude and Major) and has an MSc in Telematics (Cum Laude) from the Free University of Brussels. She started her career with the United Nations working for an IT track and trace development project for Africa, Asia and Latin-America. She joined the Andersen Consulting company in 1998 to work for the eCommerce group of the Technology department as a solutions engineer. She became a member of the staff of the European Commission in 2002 and is currently Administrator for Research in the Enterprise Networking Unit of the Information Society Directorate-General. In addition to her responsibility for research projects in the ICT area, she devotes part of her time on policy aspects related to the future of Business Collaboration and Interoperability. She is head of the Future Internet Enterprise Systems cluster responsible for giving research directions in the Enterprise Interoperability and Collaboration domain.
Dr. Steve Wright
Head of Strategic Research
BT Research
Dr Steve Wright is Head of Strategic Research, in the BT Group Chief Technology Office. He is an engineer, with a degree in electrical sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from University College London, and has 30 years experience of ICT, in both the communications and computing industries. His research focus has moved (with the focus of the industry) from materials and devices, through protocols and systems to services and solutions. Prior to joining BT, Steve worked at HP Laboratories, where he led research in pervasive computing, content delivery, mobility, LAN and Internet technologies. He was also founding Director of the HP Internet Research Institute Within BT, he is responsible for BT's strategic research investments and external research relationships. Steve is a Director of the Communications Research Network, and he joined the EPSRC User Panel in 2006.
Mr. Andrea Gianotti
Head of the digital documents management team
Il Sole 24 ORE
Andrea Gianotti is currently the head of Il Sole 24 ORE digital documents management team. In his career he has been working for many innovative projects within Il Sole 24 ORE online initiatives, mostly dedicated to digital knowledge management. He's in particular at the present time involved in some strategic tasks, with a focus on business development in the "web 2.0" B2B arena (e.g.: user behaviours analysis, cross-media contents delivery, semantic knowledge evaluation) and the scenarios of the next future media and publishing companies role.
Andrea is also involved in the Musing project, an European project dedicated to next-generation knowledge management solutions and services to enable perceptive business intelligence activities, leading the reputational analysis methods and tools development.
Panel
Panel on Cloud Computing
The panel is supported by IBM and the RESERVOIR project.
Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers (RESERVOIR) is an
European Union FP7 funded project that will enable massive scale
deployment and management of complex IT services across different
administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies. The project will
provide a foundation for a service-based online economy, where - using
virtualization technologies - resources and services are transparently
provisioned and managed on an on-demand basis at competitive costs with
high quality of service. Thus, it supports the ideas of Cloud Computing
as proclaimed today.
The prime deliverables of the project will be a definition of the
architecture and reference implementation built on open standards along
with new technologies to provide a scalable, flexible and dependable
framework for delivering services as utilities while combining diverse
infrastructures for a federated Cloud.
